I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.
Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
Jackson Browne
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
Julia Child
I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
Mitch Hedberg
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
Kevin Kelly
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
Ron White
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Marilyn Monroe
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.
Sloane Crosley
Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
Jerry Cantrell
I do not say anything from jealousy.
Anna Held
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
Jock Sturges
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason Cooley
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
A. R. Ammons
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.
Laurie Holden
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
James Ellroy
Dynamism is a function of change.
Hillary Clinton
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.
Antonio Banderas
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
Rand Paul
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
Edward Young
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
David R. Brower
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didn't want to change the health care they had they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
Fred Upton
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Will McDonough
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
Laurence Sterne
The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.
Linda Festa
When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.
Art Fettig
The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
Ludwig Feuerbach
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
Paul Karl Feyerabend
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Henry A. Wallace
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